Highlights:The video is part of a campaign by Margot Wallstrom, the communications commissioner, to boost interest in the workings of the EU....These clips explain better what the EU is doing....We can’t really compete with Paris Hilton yet...

Apparently, the Poles protested. Perhaps they didi not like how they were portrayed.

It was an almost heavenly experience yesterday evening: to all of us (around 2000 people) in the beautiful church of Leksand, Dalarna. Swedish summer, poems by Tomas Tranströmer, singing by Barbara Hendricks and Mikael Samuelson, local choirs and a young Croatian girl with a golden voice. I had been given the task to talk about hope in the context of climate change. Because in times like this we need hope and I actually believe there is more hope now than ever before since we have the know-how, the technology and the economy to change.

Ahhh....such purity, such inspirational words, such elevation..... Who woudda thunk.

Are they comparing European films to standard adult theater fare? Or encouraging "cinema lovers" to be more literal when they "come together" to enjoy films? Will the EU subsidize janitorial costs?

Speaking of onion rings and "O-faces", this is pretty funny. Even Kirk Cameron is uncomfortable. (Note: humans domesticated bananas from a rather unfriendly [and less phallic] fruit, just as they did with wheat, cows, pig, sheep, corn, etc...)